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'What's all this about?'

She tried to laugh as she tossed her head 'What brings you here, I wonder? This is quite an unexpected coo anywhere without doingwith these people?'

'Ask papa'

'I don't suppose he sent you here?'

'That's just what he did do'

'You needn't have come, I suppose, unless you liked it Is it because they are none of the !'

'Don't you feel ashamed of yourself?'

'No;--not a bit'

'Then I feel ashamed for you'

'Everybody comes here'

'No;--everybody does not co Everybody doesn't make the it except you I thought you used to think so much of yourself'

'I think as iana, hardly able to restrain her tears

'I can tell you nobody else will think much of you if you remain here I could hardly believe it when Nidderdale told me'

'What did he say, Dolly?'

'He didn't say ht And of course everybody thinks the same How you can like the people yourself is what I can't understand!'

'I don't like them,--I hate them'

'Then why do you come and live with them?'

'Oh, Dolly, it is impossible to o just where you please, and do what you like And if you're short of ive you credit And you can live by yourself and all that sort of thing How should you like to be shut up down at Cavershaovernor'

'You have got a property of your own Your fortune is made for you What is to becoether,' said the poor girl, unable to be quite as explicit with her brother, as she had been with her father, and mother, and sister 'Of course I have to think of myself'

'I don't see how the Mel and the short of it is, you oughtn't to be here It's not often I interfere, but when I heard it I thought I'd coovernor, and tell him too He should have known better'